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Long-term effect of sewage sludge and farmyard manure on grain yields and availability of zinc and iron under pearlmillet (Pennisetum glaucum)-Indian mustard (Bassica juncea) cropping sequence

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Title Long-term effect of sewage sludge and farmyard manure on grain yields and availability of zinc and iron under pearlmillet (Pennisetum glaucum)-Indian mustard (Bassica juncea) cropping sequence
 
Creator Meena, M C
Patel, K P
Singh, Dhyan
Dwivedi, B S
 
Subject Farmyard manure; Iron; Mustard; Pearlmillet; Sewage sludge; Zinc
 
Description A study was conducted during 2005-07 to study the effect of sewage sludge with or without farmyard manure on yield of pearlmillet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br. emend] and Indian mustard [Bassica juncea (L.) Czernj & Cosson] and micronutrient availability using the field that received the farmyard manure and sewage sludge treatments for preceding 5 years (2000-05). The treatments tried were sewage sludge @ 2.5, 5.0, 10 and 20 tonnes/ha, farmyard manure @ 5.0 and 10 tonnes/ha and farmyard manure+sewage sludge @ 10+2.5, 10+5.0 and 10+10 tonnes/ha in pearlmillet (kharif) in randomized block design with 3 replications. The residual effect was investigated on succeeding mustard crop. Both farmyard manure and sewage sludge were found beneficial in increasing grain yield and oil content of pearlmillet and it had a similar (residual) effect on succeeding mustard. Application of 10 tonnes farmyard manure + 10 tonnes sewage sludge/ha gave maximum yields of pearlmillet rain (1.16 tonnes/ha) and mustard seed (1.73 tonnes/ha). Use of sewage sludge increased the Zn and Fe contents in surface soil as well as in plant. The overall effect of farmyard manure + sewage sludge increased Zn and Fe uptake in both the crops, and organic carbon in soil. The DTPA-extractable Zn and Fe were higher in sewage sludge than in farmyard manure + sewage sludge or farmyard manure-treated soil.
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
Date 2008-12-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/9972
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 78, No 12 (2008)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/9972/4486
 
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